Sometimes life doesn’t seem fair, and we want to blame God for our problems. But Matthew 5:45 states, “That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.”

What the scripture is saying is that good things happen to bad people and bad things happen to good people. That’s life. Sometimes it is easy and sometimes it is difficult.

Some time last year I came back from a week off to a full voicemail box.

One of my least favorite things in life is talking on the phone. First, I have trouble hearing, so if, for example, you were to call me and say, “My daughter needs a kidney transplant,” I might hear, “My dog lives in Sydney — as a tramp.”

The conversation would generally deteriorate from there and I would end up looking like an idiot, which I try to avoid at all cost.

Now that Christmas is over and New Year’s is behind us, our thoughts quickly turn to the year ahead.

The truth is January can be one of the most depressing months of the year. Credit card bills come in from all that overspending we did at Christmas, and winter is here, which means that we have very few days over the next couple of months that we can go outside and do the things that we like to do.

“For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in.” (Matt 25:35)

Have you ever asked yourself what social justice looks like? I mean really asked yourself. Around Christmastime each year, we human beings tend to make more attempts than usual to help the less fortunate, but by mid-January this approach has lost its luster.